Country Quote by Sarah-Patton Boyle

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically…

— Jenni Schaefer

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time…

— Harriet Tubman

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

— DeRay Mckesson

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame…

— Mary Gauthier

Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and…

— Juan Goytisolo

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but…

— Mitch Albom

I found out who I was by trying loads of things that I wasn't and by realizing the facade of trying to please people…

— Adam Pearson

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

— Kenneth Rexroth